Cookie Policy
Last updated: 3 November 2026
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which ones this website uses, and why.
1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners.
2. Cookies we use
This website only uses cookies that are strictly necessary for a function you ask for yourself. Under the ePrivacy rules these do not require your prior consent, which is why there is no cookie banner — but we list them here, in the interest of transparency.
Session cookie (login)
When you log in with your BOS! account (BCA, TOTA, BLHA, BELMOTA, the Agenda, the spots page, the ONFF log upload or an admin page), a session cookie is set so the website remembers that you are logged in as you move between pages. This cookie:
- contains only a random session number, no personal data;
- is deleted when you log out or close your browser, or after a period of inactivity;
- does not track you across other websites and is not used for advertising or analytics.
Maintenance cookie (admins only)
When an administrator logs in, a cookie (bos_maintenance_bypass) lets
that administrator keep using the website while it is closed for maintenance. Regular visitors never get it.
3. Settings stored in your browser
Some pages remember your choices in your own browser (“local storage”), for example your filters on the spots page, settings of the BOS! Maps tool and the Todo list, and the QSOs you log in the BOS! phone logbook. This information stays on your device: it is not sent to us or to anyone else, unless you send it yourself (for example by uploading a log). You can remove it at any time by clearing your browser data for this website.
4. What we do NOT use
This website does not use analytics cookies (such as Google Analytics), advertising or tracking cookies, social-media cookies or embedded videos. If that ever changes, this page will be updated first, and we will ask for your consent before any non-essential cookie is set.
5. Content loaded from other websites
Some parts of this website are loaded from other servers: the map backgrounds (OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap and Esri) and a few common program libraries (cdnjs.cloudflare.com and unpkg.com). These do not set cookies through our website, but — like any website — those servers receive your IP address when your browser loads them. Links to Google Maps, QRZ.com and other sites only open those sites when you click them; their own cookie rules apply there.
6. Managing cookies
Most web browsers let you control cookies through their settings, including deleting existing cookies and blocking cookies from being set in the future. Since we only use strictly-necessary cookies, blocking them simply means you cannot stay logged in.
7. Questions
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, contact us at info@belgiumoutdoorshack.be. See also our Privacy Policy for how we handle personal data more generally.